This week's EV bargain that I'm not buying

That's not a low spec model. It has matrix headlights, sunroof and the mid spec interior.

It’s a bit easier to resolve on modern canbus cars if you know what your doing but the risk would need to be reflected in the price. That ID.5 would need to be cheaper to get someone to take it on.

217,000km,huge mileage.

And will it being out of battery warranty now, many won't fancy it.

It could possibly be, maybe they listed it in miles by accident.

But from having seen a lot of DD adverts of late, people are listing big mileage cars in miles rather than kms, as the figures isn't as scary.

Proves my point

If the odometer shows 200,000 odd kms, why list it in miles?

Sneaky.

Can back that up - a friend from Belfast is looking to replace her 8 year old ICE car, which she got 3 years ago and which has given her an increasing catalogue of problems. Now that she's had a couple of spins in my eNiro, she's on the lookout either for one of those or else a Kona, but is insistent that there must be a year or more of full car warranty left, so I said I'd do a bit of digging for her. On Autotrader UK, there are a dozen Konas under £13kstg, with two of those on a 2022 plate - albeit with slightly higher mileage, with those two having covered 72-73k miles vs 2021 cars with 50-60k miles on the clock (so there may be a need to check out possible former use as taxis). But once you set the search criteria for asking prices up to £14k and 2022 cars only, most have mileage in the 50-60k bracket, so you're really only talking maybe £500-£600 of a difference for the newer car. The warranty on those goes to 100k miles anyway.

Is this reasonable, what do we think realistic range winter/summer would be

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/nissan-leaf-2018/39193745

love his line

"Batteries still getting to 100%"

indeed, the problem is how often you have to get them to 100% though, isn't it?

that was kind of my point. 100% now is not the same as 100% when it was new.

Todays Merlin EV's.

2016 Leaf 89K Kms 6bars €1850 + fees €360

2018 Tesla Model S 100d 161K Kms €19200 + fees €1536

2021 Mazda MX-30 35.5KW battery health 93% €9900 + fees €700

2023 Megane 15K Kms €23200 + fees €1856

2023 Ioniq Premium 77KW 32K Kms + fees €27400 €2192

Whats crazy about them? Theres literally nothing on Donedeal thats even remotely close to any of those prices.

From a dealers perspective, they are able to buy multiple cars from the same seller at trade price, all within a couple of hours. That would literally take weeks to do buying privately. So time & convenience are probably a factor if you think they are too expensive..